Hi John, John Love-Jensen wrote: > [...] > Yes, that's what the auto_ptr_ref stuff does. Yeah, unfortunately my guess was right. I really need a copy constructor taking a non-const reference here. So I have no choice but to have a closer look at that stuff. > > Maybe that's working around this problem. > > It's not a problem, per se. It's intentional, by design. Then, what is the intention? I can't imagine where this imposes a problem. > [...] Thanks, Christian